mformat command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mformat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mformat: command not found

Solutions to mformat: command not found

How To Fix mformat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mformat is provided by mtools package.

mtools is:

Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992kB on a high density 3 1/2 disk).

Also included in this package are commands to eject and manipulate the write/password protection control of Zip disks.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mtools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mtools.

sudo apt -y install mtools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mtools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mformat command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.